PW Launches Select - a listing of self-published titles
In launching its new listing service, Select, Publishers Weekly (US) writes:
The rise in self-publishing, DIY, subsidy or vanity publishing--whichever term you prefer--is probably one of the most significant changes in the publishing industry in recent years. Since Publishers Weekly was founded in 1872, the magazine has strived to cover the entire publishing industry and this new supplement is simply our latest effort to fulfill our historic mandate. Over the last 20 years, self-publishing has produced an explosion of new authors and new books. Nearly 800,000 books were produced in the U.S. last year and were characterized by Bowker as "nontraditional"; much of this was self-published and POD.
The fee to be included in the "inaugural listing" will be $149, with no guarantee of a review. The new supplement will be released quarterly, with the first one in PW's year-end issue in December.
In the meantime, new authors can suggest their titles for inclusion in ACHUKA's own self-published selection: http://www.achuka.co.uk/indie.php [currently for free!]
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